Csharp/CSharp Tutorial/XML/XmlElement

Get node children count

<source lang="csharp">using System; using System.Xml; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text;

   class Program{
       static void Main(string[] args)
       {
           XmlDocument itemDoc = new XmlDocument();
           itemDoc.Load("items.xml");
           Console.WriteLine("DocumentElement has {0} children.",itemDoc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes.Count);
           foreach (XmlNode itemNode in itemDoc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes)
           {
               XmlElement itemElement = (XmlElement)itemNode;
               Console.WriteLine("\n[Item]: {0}\n{1}", itemElement.Attributes["name"].Value,itemElement.Attributes["description"].Value);
               if (itemNode.ChildNodes.Count == 0)
                   Console.WriteLine("(No additional Information)\n");
               else
               {
                   foreach (XmlNode childNode in itemNode.ChildNodes)
                   {
                       if (childNode.Name.ToUpper() == "ATTRIBUTE")
                       {
                           Console.WriteLine("{0} : {1}",
                               childNode.Attributes["name"].Value,
                               childNode.Attributes["value"].Value);
                       }
                       else if (childNode.Name.ToUpper() == "SPECIALS")
                       {
                           foreach (XmlNode specialNode in childNode.ChildNodes)
                           {
                               Console.WriteLine("*{0}:{1}",
                                   specialNode.Attributes["name"].Value,
                                   specialNode.Attributes["description"].Value);
                           }
                       }
                   }
               }
           }
       }
   }</source>

Output child node inner text

<source lang="csharp">using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ruponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Xml;

   public class MainClass
   {
       public static void Main()
       {
           XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
           doc.Load("employees.xml");
           foreach (XmlNode node in doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes)
           {
               string employeeid = node.Attributes["employeeid"].Value;
               Console.WriteLine(employeeid);
           }
           XmlElement ele= doc.GetElementById("id");
           Console.WriteLine(ele.ChildNodes[0].InnerText);
           Console.WriteLine(ele.ChildNodes[1].InnerText);
           Console.WriteLine(ele.ChildNodes[2].InnerText);
           Console.WriteLine(ele.ChildNodes[3].InnerText);
       }
   }</source>

Selecting single Node with SelectSingleNode as XmlElement

<source lang="csharp">using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Xml; public class Customer {

   public string FirstName { get; set; }
   public string LastName { get; set; }
   public string EmailAddress { get; set; }
   public override string ToString()
   {
       return string.Format("{0} {1}\nEmail:   {2}", FirstName, LastName, EmailAddress);
   }

} public class Tester {

   static void Main()
   {
       List<Customer> customers = new List<Customer>{
               new Customer { FirstName = "A", 
                              LastName = "G",
                              EmailAddress = "o@a.ru"},
               new Customer { FirstName = "B", 
                              LastName = "C",
                              EmailAddress = "k@a.ru" },
               new Customer { FirstName = "D", 
                              LastName = "C",
                              EmailAddress = "d@a.ru" },
               new Customer { FirstName = "E", 
                              LastName = "G",
                              EmailAddress = "j@a.ru" },
               new Customer { FirstName = "L", 
                              LastName = "H",
                              EmailAddress = "l@a.ru" }
           };
       XmlDocument customerXml = new XmlDocument();
       XmlElement rootElem = customerXml.CreateElement("Customers");
       customerXml.AppendChild(rootElem);
       foreach (Customer customer in customers)
       {
           XmlElement customerElem = customerXml.CreateElement("Customer");
           XmlAttribute firstNameAttr = customerXml.CreateAttribute("FirstName");
           firstNameAttr.Value = customer.FirstName;
           customerElem.Attributes.Append(firstNameAttr);
           XmlAttribute lastNameAttr = customerXml.CreateAttribute("LastName");
           lastNameAttr.Value = customer.LastName;
           customerElem.Attributes.Append(lastNameAttr);
           XmlElement emailAddress = customerXml.CreateElement("EmailAddress");
           emailAddress.InnerText = customer.EmailAddress;
           customerElem.AppendChild(emailAddress);
           rootElem.AppendChild(customerElem);
       }

       string xPath = "/Customers/Customer[@FirstName="D"]";
       XmlElement customerElem1 = customerXml.SelectSingleNode(xPath) as XmlElement;
       if (customerElem1 != null)
       {
           Console.WriteLine(customerElem1.OuterXml);
           Console.WriteLine("customerElem.HasAttributes = {0}", customerElem1.HasAttributes);
       }
       else
           Console.WriteLine("Not found");
   }

}</source>